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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, February 10, 2016
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
City of Newburgh.. . . . . . . . . . . 24
Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 8
Meadow Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Town of Newburgh. . . . . . . . . . . 23
Newburgh Heritage. . . . . . . . . . . 10
New Windsor.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 33
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
PUBLIC AGENDA
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Town of New Windsor Planning
Board, 7 p.m. Town Hall, 555 Union
Avenue.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11
Public meeting on proposed Pilgrim
Pipeline. 7 p.m. Newburgh Town Hall,
1496 Route 300, Town of Newburgh
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16
City of Newburgh Planning Board,
7:30 p.m. City Hall, 83 Broadway.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18
Newburgh City Council Work Session,
6 p.m. City Hall, 83 Broadway.
Town of Newburgh Planning Board, 7
p.m. Town Hall, 1496 Route 300, Town
of Newburgh.
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Act of courage remembered
Purple Heart Hall of Honor ceremony recalls the Four Chaplains
By GARY M. AYD
As the years pass and heroic efforts
transition from the memories of the living to the annals of history textbooks,
the responsibility to honor those heroes
and their memory has never been more
important.
The Purple Heart Hall of Honor did
exactly that Saturday with a heartfelt
program to honor four heroic chaplains
from World War II. It kicked off with
the Pledge of Allegiance and national
anthem, followed by an interfaith prayer,
brief talk from hall leaders, a 30-minute
film on the history of the chaplains and
a ceremonial candle-lighting ceremony
honoring them.
Chaplains George L. Fox, Alexander
D. Goode, Clark V. Poling and John P.
Washington were all veterans of WWII
and were immortalized in 1943 when the
ship they were aboard, the SS Dorchester,
was hit by a torpedo and sunk by a German U-Boat.
Poling was the seventh generation in
his family to become an ordained minister in the Dutch Reformed Church. In fact
Poling has a local tie, graduating from the
Oakwood School in Poughkeepsie.
Goode was a Jewish rabbi as well as
an outstanding athlete and scholar. Like
Poling, Goode had a family history for
hol